This story was of an amazing woman, who did everything that she could to save her life and the life of her twin daughters while fleeing for safety only to find she had been made a widow two weeks before she arrived to where her husband had been stationed. It is also a story of a young woman, who is trying to find answers about her mother and lost twin sisters that she wishes she would have asked before her mother had passed away. She has wondered for a long time what her mother's true feelings towards her were, whether she wished she was her sisters. She has also always wondered what her mother meant by telling her that she Chinese is in her blood, and there is no way to escape it.
This was such a complicated situation. To go to China for the first time, arranged by her aunt Lindo, to meet many relatives she has never seen and to meet her lost twin sisters, this must have been a confusing mix of feelings. I can't imagine being in her shoes, having the pressure of telling her sisters what had happened to their late mother, a woman that they were planning on meeting.
When June May arrives in Guangzhou, some familiar details she find are the amenities of the hotel. One thing she finds that makes her realize she is not in America is the shampoo she finds in the bathroom. She is constantly making comparisons between America and China because I think in a way she is making comparisons between herself and being Chinese and trying to find her differences and similarities.
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